tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post8656059687277031530..comments2024-03-29T00:25:24.008-04:00Comments on the daily howler: THE PROBLEM: Wicker said Ukraine hacked the DNC emails!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-64351724149520260042022-10-31T15:31:12.654-04:002022-10-31T15:31:12.654-04:00
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Dr Oyagu send me his medicine which I took as instructed and here I am living a happy life once again, a big thanks to Dr Oyagu, I am sure there are many herbal doctors out there but Dr Oyagu did it for me, contact him oyaguherbalhome@gmail.com , also call or whatsApp him on +2348101755322Kate Russell https://www.blogger.com/profile/01375349007567867111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-90636825305029826302019-11-30T13:38:53.886-05:002019-11-30T13:38:53.886-05:00The ignorant nicknaming the informed "Hillary...The ignorant nicknaming the informed "Hillary", is brilliant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-90023745050744651412019-11-30T12:34:10.887-05:002019-11-30T12:34:10.887-05:00Mao, you poor stupid fucking trumptard. Catch up,...Mao, you poor stupid fucking trumptard. Catch up, will you. You need to go to Kiev and find that Ukrainian billionaire owner of Crowdstrike and get the damn DNC server from him. What the fuck are you waiting for? This will clear the whole matter up. Bwahahahaha!!!! Trump is gonna drain the swamp by finding a mythical Ukrainian who has the DNC server!!!!! You poor twisted trumptard dittohead. mmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-16977522798560812622019-11-30T12:11:46.720-05:002019-11-30T12:11:46.720-05:00mm - thank you for that text. I wondered where th...mm - thank you for that text. I wondered where that story about not wanting an investigation had come from. <br /><br />There is a logical flaw in Sondland's testimony. <i>Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.</i><br /><br />Sondland said he didn't hear Giuliani specifically ask for an investigation. He clarified his statement, saying he didn't hear either way whether or not they really wanted an investigation. But, Sondland didn't hear anyone say they did NOT want an investigation.<br /><br />Also, Trump's words to the Ukraine President pretty clearly implied that he wanted an investigation.David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-24548578786152520372019-11-30T11:50:02.443-05:002019-11-30T11:50:02.443-05:00"Donald Trump wanted these two investigations..."Donald Trump wanted these two investigations that would help his reelection campaign, correct?"<br /><br />Dear Hillary, indeed, fulfilling their campaign promises (the promise to "drain the swamp", in this case) is what politicians do (and should do) to help their reelection campaigns. <br /><br />...I wonder what Mr Schiff's campaign promises were that got him elected, and how he is fulfilling them. Not very well, I hear:<br />"<i>Schiff's 28th congressional district has seen a 12 percent spike in homelessness over the last year, with 59,000 homeless people now living in Los Angeles County, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. And 75.2 percent of those homeless citizens are unsheltered and without refuge.<br /><br />Barbosa said Schiff should be using his time and resources to help his home district, rather than trying to settle an old political score with Trump and the GOP.</i>"<br />https://www.foxnews.com/media/adam-schiff-trump-impeachment-homelessnessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-43633418867442029382019-11-30T08:49:36.763-05:002019-11-30T08:49:36.763-05:00BTW deadrat, what do you mean by "phony"...<em>BTW deadrat, what do you mean by "phony" investigation? Where in the evidence did that come from?</em><br /><br />Donald J Chickenshit's top guy- one of the self styled "three amigos", david, you treasonous bastard.<br /><br />**************<br />SCHIFF: And in order to perform that official act [a meeting in the Oval Office], Donald Trump wanted these two investigations that would help his reelection campaign, correct?<br /><br />SONDLAND: I can’t characterize why he wanted them. All I can tell you is this is what we heard from Mr. Giuliani.<br /><br />SCHIFF: But he had to get those two investigations if that official act was going to take place, correct?<br /><br />SONDLAND: He had to announce the investigations. <b>He didn’t actually have to do them, as I understood it.</b><br />*****************<br /><br />***********<br />GOLDMAN: Giuliani and President Trump didn’t actually care if they did them, right?<br /><br />SONDLAND: I never heard, Mr. Goldman, anyone say that the investigations had to start or be completed. <b>The only thing I heard from Mr. Giuliani or otherwise was that they had to be announced.</b> ... President Trump presumably, communicated through Mr. Giuliani, wanted the Ukrainians on-record publicly that they were going to do those investigations.<br /><br />GOLDMAN: You never heard anyone say that they really wanted them to do the investigations.<br /><br />SONDLAND: I didn’t hear either way.<br />*************<br /><br /><br />mmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-82325794295816278242019-11-30T05:45:43.378-05:002019-11-30T05:45:43.378-05:00"Trump is chickenshit and I am a bigot. Howev..."Trump is chickenshit and I am a bigot. However, what Trump is alleged to have done is not a crime."<br /><br />Wow. David with a 67% hit rate. I'm super impressed.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-28926564694022270472019-11-30T04:12:14.305-05:002019-11-30T04:12:14.305-05:00" They were both asking for action that was j..." They were both asking for action that was justifiable as well as benefiting them personally."<br /><br />Meh. Creepy Joe's Crime Family was paid millions for protecting Burisma. That's a quid pro quo, plain and simple. <br /><br />But The Donald does not personally benefit from investigating Creepy Joe. <br /><br />The Fake Indian does. Bernie The God does. All the other zombie clowns running for zombie cult nomination do. <br /><br />But the Donald? How <i>would</i> he personally benefit? That's nonsense, David. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-47450917394576350142019-11-30T02:38:40.305-05:002019-11-30T02:38:40.305-05:00I think it's against the law to solicit or acc...<i>I think it's against the law to solicit or accept campaign help from foreign officials, bribery or not. Anything of value.</i><br /><br />Here’s the law (<b>emphasis</b> mine):<br /><br /><i>52USC§30121. Contributions and donations by foreign nationals<br />(a) Prohibition<br />It shall be unlawful for-<br /><br />(1) a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make-<br /><br />(A) a <b>contribution or donation of money or other thing of value</b>, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election;<br /><br />(B) a <b>contribution or donation</b> to a committee of a political party; or<br /><br />(C) an <b>expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement</b> for an electioneering communication (within the meaning of section 30104(f)(3) of this title); or<br /><br />(2) a person to solicit, accept, or receive a contribution or donation described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) from a foreign national.</i><br /><br />Trump would be implicated in paragraph (2).<br /><br /><i>So yes, he/they broke THAT law. This legal point has been forgotten in all the quid pro quo talk.</i><br /><br />Well, they (the Ukrainians) didn’t, since they never followed through. But there’s reason to be cautious here. Yes, the law says “other thing of value,” but when courts interpret laws, they can apply a rule called <i>eiusdem generis</i> or “things of the same kind.” This happens when a statute says “A, B, C, or other things….” A court may interpret that as “A, B, C, or other <i>such like</i> things” and carefully investigate the common attributes of A, B, and C.<br /><br />In the case of this campaign finance law, all the specific things prohibited are monetary, and a court might rule that the law meant to prohibit only money (or convertible equivalents). Scandal avoidance (in the case of Stormy Daniels) or scandal mongering (in the case of the Bidens) might not qualify.<br /><br />It’s not clear when or if the application of <i>eiusdem generis</i> would come into play as there’s been very little adjudication of 52USC§30121.<br />deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-30419471126784446162019-11-30T02:09:40.971-05:002019-11-30T02:09:40.971-05:00*** Public Service Announcement ***
David in Cal ...*** Public Service Announcement ***<br /><br />David in Cal is an idiot both ethically and intellectually. I warn commenters not to engage in discussions with him for the good and sufficient reason that I don’t: if you argue with an idiot, pretty soon people won’t be able to tell the difference. I also urge commenters not to insult David — I’m looking at you mm — because reasonable people do not ascribe agency to idiots. As I’ve long said, heaping vituperation on David is like going to the Special Olympics to boo the losers.<br /><br />Even a nine year old caught with his hand in the cookie jar knows that it will avail him nothing to rat out his siblings for the same transgression. A <i>tu quoque</i> defense is still a guilty plea.<br /><br />David in Cal can do no more than regurgitate here the right-wing talking points that are his sole diet of political information. And these talking points sometimes involve legal issues, which I discuss as a matter of public service. If legal issues make your eyes glaze over, I fully understand. Thus<br /><br /><tl;dr> Trump is a criminal and David in Cal is an idiot.<br /><br />For those of you still with me, consider the following topics:<br /><br />1. There isn’t the slightest evidence that Hunter Biden was ever the target of an investigation by authorities in Ukraine or that Joe Biden had any knowledge at all of his son’s activities in Ukraine. If Joe Biden is under any reasonable suspicion of breaking US law, then we have a mechanism in place to deal with that. It’s a treaty with Ukraine of the type called MLAT or Mutual Legal AssistanceTreaty, which allows each country to enlist the help of the other in investigating criminal activities of their respective citizens. The treaty names a contact for inquiries, and in our case, it’s the AG. Until and unless William Bar activates the provisions of the treaty, it’s a safe bet that accusations against Joe Biden are just typical Republican crap.<br /><br />2. We can be sure that Trump wasn’t interested in rooting out corruption in Ukraine in return for giving that country military aid. We have a mechanism to do that as well. It’s called a “presidential finding” (legal term: Memorandum of Notification). (The President is required by law to deliver a MON to certain Congressional committees for every covert CIA action.) If Trump was concerned about Ukrainian corruption, he could have asked that foreign aid to Ukraine be made contingent on a Presidential finding of suitably honest governance. He didn’t. Remember that Trump’s lackeys controlled both Houses of Congress for the first two years of his term.<br /><br />3. <i>Train v City of New York</i>, which invalidated impoundment, isn’t directly a Constitutional case, but one of statutory interpretation. The decision makes impoundment unavailable to the President if an appropriation bill is written to preclude impoundment. Congress has made appropriations subject to the Budget Control Act of 1974. Title X of that act, known as the Impoundment Control Act, with <i>Train</i> effectively eliminates Presidential impoundment.<br /><br />The Impoundment Control Act requires that the President submit a rescission request to not spend appropriated funds. Congress has 45 days to approve the request, and if it doesn’t, the funds must be spent. Trump held up Ukraine’s aid for more than 45 days with no rescission request. A staffer for the Office of Management and Budget has testified that two people (unnamed) left the Office over the legality of holding up the aid to Ukraine.deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-86396472928091758102019-11-30T00:29:45.095-05:002019-11-30T00:29:45.095-05:00I think it's against the law to solicit or acc...I think it's against the law to solicit or accept campaign help from foreign officials, bribery or not. Anything of value.<br /><br />So yes, he/they broke THAT law. This legal point has been forgotten in all the quid pro quo talk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89462548404186125532019-11-29T23:35:59.946-05:002019-11-29T23:35:59.946-05:00deadrat - if you take those words extremely litera...deadrat - if you take those words extremely literally, then Biden also committed bribery. Firing that prosecutor meant that his son would not be investigated. That was something of value to Biden. But, IMHO that expanded definition is not really appropriate, neither to Biden nor to Trump. They were both asking for action that was justifiable as well as benefiting them personally.<br /><br />BTW deadrat, what do you mean by "phony" investigation? Where in the evidence did that come from? Certainly Trump's words in the phone call in no way said or implied that Trump wanted a phony investigation. <br /><br />You mention impoundment. Trump did not impound the aid, he delayed it. David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-38917535250382556322019-11-29T22:32:06.742-05:002019-11-29T22:32:06.742-05:00*** Public Service Announcement ***
David in Cal ...*** Public Service Announcement ***<br /><br />David in Cal is an idiot both ethically and intellectually.<br /><br />Of course it’s not illegal to set conditions for foreign aid. Biden famously announced the condition of getting rid of a corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor in return for loan guarantees to Ukraine. If the condition is corrupt, however, it falls under the rubric of bribery. Here’s the relevant section from the United States Code (<b>emphasis</b> mine):<br /><br /><i>Title 18§201. <b>Bribery of public officials</b> and witnesses....<br />Whoever … (B) being <b>a public official</b>, … <b>demands</b>, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept <b>anything of value personally for … any official act</b> performed or to be performed by such official or person;</i><br /><br />1. <b>Pubic official</b> = Donald Trump, President<br />2. <b>demand</b> = conducting a phony investigation into a political rival and public announcement of such by the President of Ukraine<br />3. <b>personal value</b> = political advantage in being able to smear a political opponent <br />4. <b>official act</b> = release of military aid.<br /><br />#2 is called the <i>quid</i>; #4 is called the <i>quo</i>. Notice that Biden’s demand involved no personal gain for himself.<br /><br />In addition, Trump’s hold on Congressional appropriations constitutes something called impoundment, an action that the Supreme Court declared illegal in <i>Train v City of New York</i>, 420US35 (1975). Trump’s refusal to abide by this Supreme Court decision is an abuse of power. If you’re not an idiot, you can see that this in itself is an impeachable offense.<br />deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-73284181824636553772019-11-29T20:07:19.975-05:002019-11-29T20:07:19.975-05:00Conditioning foreign aid on certain behavior is no...Conditioning foreign aid on certain behavior is not bribery. In fact, it's quite normal. BTW note that the aid was not going to any particular individual. It would be different if Trump were offering money personally to, say, the President of Ukraine.<br /><br />Joe Biden boasted about foreign aid to Ukraine being contingent on firing a prosecutor. Military aid is often contingent on spending the money for American arms. Neither of these is bribery.David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-38799748155516350092019-11-29T19:14:17.583-05:002019-11-29T19:14:17.583-05:00Bribery is a crime. Even if a self-admitted sexual...Bribery is a crime. Even if a self-admitted sexual predator does it.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-9411567993662750342019-11-29T14:54:15.864-05:002019-11-29T14:54:15.864-05:00Got it. Trump is chickenshit and I am a bigot. Ho...Got it. Trump is chickenshit and I am a bigot. However, what Trump is alleged to have done is not a crime.David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.com